Year % of female population 1960 17.5189268490672 1961 17.388123336671 1962 17.3113473014884 1963 17.3324608441399 1964 17.2817803768473 1965 17.2761741625774 1966 17.3496693438422 1967 17.4131345884235 1968 17.4914684943945 1969 17.6092382493179 1970 17.6949048153545 1971 17.7174864716638 1972 17.939580389854 1973 18.0452466675011 1974 17.8401557066708 1975 17.7342578676516 1976 17.7077146023444 1977 17.661619515981 1978 17.703576277369 1979 17.9307171128102 1980 17.9611201809847 1981 18.1205422322196 1982 18.5523361470061 1983 18.8952173423625 1984 19.1912319701798 1985 19.4386636577887 1986 19.5622405943135 1987 19.4947664461396 1988 19.3992944333824 1989 19.3154922116766 1990 19.2189526988055 1991 19.1130110440049 1992 18.9247176521939 1993 19.5045929754119 1994 19.1498438394903 1995 18.096684102281 1996 18.1505031455519 1997 18.075453240795 1998 17.6140813873262 1999 17.4749571545388 2000 17.5225736982766 2001 17.3241941071461 2002 17.3204348009059 2003 17.5070438884678 2004 17.7171036822048 2005 17.9878796328793 2006 18.3202313998785 2007 18.6327947513436 2008 18.8517161425415 2009 18.9154541637617 2010 19.0147644354362 2011 19.1937124720665 2012 19.2427120065616 2013 19.1733316222292 2014 19.0146050822167 2015 18.8612559671937 2016 18.6230202301463 2017 18.1949680695545 2018 17.6346202439057 2019 17.0462297845018 2020 16.5374813473841 2021 16.1239618718596 2022 15.7981475345411 2023 15.5121394030636